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• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  typical day is like for an MIT student. Although that's a very good question, it's actually really hard to answer, for two reasons. First, MIT is ... with friends. The second reason it's a hard question to answer is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Surprise! Long time no see!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? John McCain is 2.41 Saturn years old. Funny story. On the way to dinner tonight we were discussing Adelaide '09 and her role ... to say, except thank you Sam and Ruth! Oh, and Rick is kind of upset

  • by Snively '11
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Sneak Peek A teeny tiny sneak preview of BC REX. I mean really. It's basically useless.

  

  Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, all the way from Madrid, Spain, I bring you: a totally useless sneak peak of Orientation. This is ... director of MIT-Spain is in Madrid, and all of the interns are meeting for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 31, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  Boston Pops is combined with an amazing fireworks show, and is televised ... separates Boston from Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the ... : Okay, so I'm not much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends Tonight, It Ends Tonight On this evening / I give the final blow...

  

  It all ends tonight. Last 8.02 exam. Last 14.01 pset. Last 5.111 pset. One all-nighter. Wish me luck. ;) The semester is really coming to an end! Freshman year is almost finished...wow. I'll be back tomorrow

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Whatever, this week rocks MIT students gripe a lot about homework. It's not all they do though, thank god.

  

  screwed as I thought I was. To celebrate w/ me is the MIT cheerleading squad ... from Molly) Yeah our squad is smaller this year. Anyways, end of term

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Mystery Hunt Puzzle A Taste of Things to Come...

  

  It is 2:45 AM. You have just finished your 5.111 pset. The handwritten solutions took you 10 pages, and you're very fed up with drawing ... , you decide to return to your 14.01, for it is due in 11 hours. Luckily

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Town Cambridge: university and city.

  

  in Cambridge. Even though it is the middle of winter, you can see the place is actually still pretty green and pretty. Well, the first picture

  • by Cambridge
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  someone from Spain is reading this, allow me to say that you have one ... on at MIT): 6. I'm in Europe because of 21F.782, which is a Spanish II class that is conducted entirely in Spain = living with Spanish host

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  recruitment this year, which is precisely why I did so. Rather than continuing ... 's sororities is not to put unsuspecting girls through Formal Recruitment. Formal Recruitment, while giving people equal time to all five of MIT's sororities, is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Registration Browser Issues Firefox isn't playing nicely with MyMIT...

  

  , which is likely why some of you have been having problems. We'll get to ... is blank, you'll need to re-register using Safari or Internet Explorer

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  ? It is impossible to know. We will have no idea how many people we will ... of you may be saying, "C'mon, MIT is really good at math. They have to ... admitted from the wiatlist." The reality is that predicting yield is very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  Dear friends and fellow CS people, My name is Kevin Wang and I ... the Y Combinator (http://www.ycombinator.com/) program, which is still ... interested in, and, now after working for one, I am convinced that it is the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  Escargots." One of the things I promised myself is that this year I would try ... as pets (with collars). The Traags are an alien race which is humanoid ... Traags' treatment of the Oms is ironically contrasted with their high level

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving! Holiday wishes and fun stuff.

  

  Happy Thanksgiving! My friend Jennifer (MIT '01) is an artist/baker extraordinaire. This week I got her annual Thanksgiving comic in my inbox: Dear ... assistance this Thanksgiving? One place to check out is Instructables (a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  to go directly into industry? Research? Education? Is there any ... everything,) and neuroscience is a definite possibility but English is just as ... 't done much within the field, but it is something that interests me. Based

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The best picture we took in Paris Slightly delayed for some slightly successful attempts at photo editing.

  

  . This is all chronicled in my favorite Tech article of all time. Regardless of what it looks like, this is a tribute to our institute, not a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “MIT Abounds With UROP Students” A photo spread about student research.

  

  The most recent issue of MIT's student newspaper The Tech had a nice spread about summer UROPs. UROP is MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, and is the oldest and most extensive program involving

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  ? Summer is slipping away and the crisp New England weather is looming just ... I say welcome! Come on in, the water is just fine. I hope that you ... . This is, after all, a community designed for and about you. When I began

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.

  

  station, which is located next to the NIH and my house, I saw this ... blotting in a Metro station! (By the way, a Western blot analysis is a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006